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EC: GSP for certain countries' sectors revoked for 2017-2019 period

Announcement

09 Mar 2016

On 9 March 2016, the European Commission announced regulation 330/2016 changing its Generalized Scheme of Preferences (henceforth: GSP) for a number of countries. For the period from 1 January 2017 until 31 December 2019, the sectors' of these countries have been scrapped from the GSP:

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4

4 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

01 Jan 2017

Revocation date:

31 Dec 2019

Announced: 09 Mar 2016
Import tariff
From 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2019, the following sectors from Kenya are scrapped from the GSP: live plants and floricultural plants. The list of affected tariff lines is based on those tariff li...
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Announced: 09 Mar 2016
Import tariff
From 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2019, the following sectors from Indonesia are scrapped from the GSP: live animals and products thereof -excluding fish; animal and vegetable oils/fats/waxes. The li...
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Announced: 09 Mar 2016
Import tariff
From 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2019, the following sectors from India are scrapped from the GSP: mineral products; chemicals (inorganic and organic); textiles; precious metals; pearls; iron and st...
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Implementation date

01 Jan 2017

Revocation date:

01 Jan 2020

Announced: 09 Mar 2016
Import tariff
From 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2019, the following sectors from Ukraine are scrapped from the GSP: railway and tram vehicles; animal and vegetable oils/fats/waxes. The list of affected tariff li...
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